tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7897286065374355890.post4802242883037369508..comments2024-03-19T04:21:59.320-07:00Comments on Mike Rose's Blog: Why Go to School?Mike Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14013622839240394965noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7897286065374355890.post-3793497309868295472009-12-18T10:35:58.543-08:002009-12-18T10:35:58.543-08:00WHile I think that school had tasught you how to w...WHile I think that school had tasught you how to wright such a what is the word... Eligant blog. i some how must disagree with the thought that school teaches us to interact and think together. Being a student today and sitting in a class for 8 hours if I may say that this is not at all what we learn.<br />we are learing what the goverment teaches and when we try to go outsid eof the box we are Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03429630164745620071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7897286065374355890.post-60147257257364421102009-12-15T22:51:14.373-08:002009-12-15T22:51:14.373-08:001st....
awww... nvm1st....<br /><br />awww... nvmlov2bikenrockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18261386549059289591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7897286065374355890.post-83542926288717656262009-05-19T12:16:00.000-07:002009-05-19T12:16:00.000-07:00This makes question makes me reflect back on my ye...This makes question makes me reflect back on my years of schooling and think about why I went and what I enjoyed. I have learned so much throughout my education, starting with preschool. I always enjoyed school because I love interacting with people. I played sports, did drama, and took AP classes during junior high and high school. I went to k-12 because I had to, and I made the best of it. I Paulnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7897286065374355890.post-57095349191015458462009-05-04T10:48:00.000-07:002009-05-04T10:48:00.000-07:00Why do we go to school?
Like others have mentione...Why do we go to school?<br /><br />Like others have mentioned, this is an interesting question and somewhat difficult for me to answer. Really, why do we go to school? I never saw school as an option when I was growing up. Both of my parents graduated from college, and my dad continued with graduate school for a while. It was always understood that I would go through school and then go to Jennifer G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7897286065374355890.post-69899456142783944952009-02-03T08:42:00.000-08:002009-02-03T08:42:00.000-08:00Hello to all the Bloggers here. I must say I like ...Hello to all the Bloggers here. I must say I like all the Articles you wrote about your schooling experiences. I had the opportunity to read your blogs with smile on my face- But I was wondering if I will also be able to write anything and claim it is my school experience.<BR/><BR/>I am 19 years old male from Northern Ghana, West Africa. I complete my school last two years and hoping to enter Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12413969782076557293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7897286065374355890.post-44012134406818844132008-09-30T20:12:00.000-07:002008-09-30T20:12:00.000-07:00I do hope you'll forgive me for being long-win...I do hope you'll forgive me for being long-winded about this... <BR/><BR/>When I was a child, the bookshelves in my parents’ house were full of the English canon: Faulkner, Hemingway, Twain, Orwell, Steinbeck, Austen and the Brontes. On the top shelf, there was Moby Dick, The Scarlet Letter, War and Peace and Gone with the Wind, the Best American Short Plays. When friends came over to Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7897286065374355890.post-48780117538222934752008-05-05T07:32:00.000-07:002008-05-05T07:32:00.000-07:00"All of the above help young people develop a sens..."All of the above help young people develop a sense of themselves as knowledgeable and capable of acting in and on the world. This, finally, was what education gave me, a pathway from hazy disaffection to competence, to a dawning awareness that I could figure things out and do something with what I learned." This quote really sticks out for me as I ponder on my school experience this semester. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7897286065374355890.post-36334396831419145542008-04-22T21:08:00.000-07:002008-04-22T21:08:00.000-07:00Why go to school? Education is a basis of discover...Why go to school? <BR/>Education is a basis of discovery of one’s own individuality through a collection of information, composed by historical figures and modern day movers and shakers; that through discovery, experience, artistic inspiration, political motivation and/or literary epiphanies, have gifted to students their knowledge in which learn from . Students learn through the experiences Denisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18371666641571916884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7897286065374355890.post-53780995833972660812008-04-21T20:57:00.000-07:002008-04-21T20:57:00.000-07:00Mike, I suppose I could try and echo your eloquenc...Mike, <BR/><BR/>I suppose I could try and echo your eloquence with in depth analysis and reflection. I however, find it better to simply say that I was provoked to thought by your piece. "Why do we go to school?" All to often I allow myself to get caught up in the current of societal norms and do not think to question things such as this. Thank you. School is the conduit to a better life, not Joshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15712073266602868815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7897286065374355890.post-39273279114646400292008-04-19T23:49:00.000-07:002008-04-19T23:49:00.000-07:00Mike and all, this is a personal response to a ver...Mike and all, this is a personal response to a very big social question. I have responded as I often do – with an individual’s story, this time my own – that aims to question institutional norms and expectations. This was the story that came to mind and fingertips. Thanks for this opportunity to share thoughts. <BR/><BR/>“Why go to school?” In November of 1976, at the end of fall quarter of Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7897286065374355890.post-66381090869401692592008-04-19T16:38:00.000-07:002008-04-19T16:38:00.000-07:00Tough question! I didn't have a very good relatio...Tough question! <BR/><BR/>I didn't have a very good relationship with school until college and grad school. The public school system is a terrible place for students with undiagnosed ADD and other learning disabilities. The routines were oppressive and imagination was almost always absent. I was labeled called an underachiever, unmotivated, told I had a bad attitude, by those who didn't k8https://www.blogger.com/profile/07547334819703279971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7897286065374355890.post-9440535468281516542008-04-18T18:29:00.000-07:002008-04-18T18:29:00.000-07:00There are many positive purposes of education, and...There are many positive purposes of education, and I'm going to share a not-so-glamorous example: I always knew I would go to school, and college was not enough. My parents expected it and it started out as a way to please them, meet their expectations. But as I grew older, I realized that education, too, would afford economic stability and workplace marketablility. I wouldn't have to feel what artinehhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00161737825243177056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7897286065374355890.post-60886574961041987272008-04-18T07:58:00.000-07:002008-04-18T07:58:00.000-07:00Trust you to ask the essential question--Why do we...Trust you to ask the essential question--Why do we go to school? The next question to ask is--Why do we as grownups pay a significant amount of tax money for children to go to school?<BR/><BR/>We go to school because there is something compelling about going to school--either intrinsically or extrinsically. That is, either because we learn a lot in ways that make us want more; or because someone Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7897286065374355890.post-13740892590141081992008-04-17T22:22:00.000-07:002008-04-17T22:22:00.000-07:00Interesting question: why go to school?For me, th...Interesting question: why go to school?<BR/><BR/>For me, the child of teachers, the answer was initially very simple: you go not to make Mom and Dad mad. I was a middle child, the sort of kid who wanted/needed to do the right thing, so I went to school.<BR/><BR/>From the very first I liked school. It had cool toys (I remember a red Tonka fire truck with great fondness to this day from Miss Christopher Deanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06106410913524386761noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7897286065374355890.post-11005497951959045352008-04-17T21:46:00.000-07:002008-04-17T21:46:00.000-07:00School was an extension of home life and religion....School was an extension of home life and religion. I grew up in a very small town, but we were religiously segregated. Our neighborhood clustered around the church and the school--St. Thomas Aquinas both. All the newer homes in my neighborhood were built on lots formerly owned by the church and the priest only sold those lots to Catholics. And you were somehow obligated to sell your house to Pattyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17262924855812633111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7897286065374355890.post-76839751190625775612008-04-13T01:14:00.000-07:002008-04-13T01:14:00.000-07:00Dear Mike,From a very young age, education meant e...Dear Mike,<BR/><BR/>From a very young age, education meant everything to me. It was my hope of escaping the reality of my life. I was poor and slipped thru every crack and counselor in grade school on up. However, I still loved school and still do. Education changed everything especially how I perceived myself. I’ve always felt that school like the world is what we make of it. Some embrace it, Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7897286065374355890.post-68872443135973979632008-04-11T23:59:00.000-07:002008-04-11T23:59:00.000-07:00Now this idea of why go to school, I have to say t...Now this idea of why go to school, I have to say this is a very interesting question. I could not have answered it until I was 20 years old. I had no idea why I was going to school until that point, although I didn't think I was missing anything by failing to think critically about my education. I had terrible attendance habits in high school. I did, however, make good use of the time (or Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7897286065374355890.post-46507465059811581342008-04-09T21:31:00.000-07:002008-04-09T21:31:00.000-07:00Why go to school? (Simple, elegant question.) A ...Why go to school? (Simple, elegant question.) A few posts ago I promised to come back and talk about humanist responses to oppressive school practices. I been meaning to, but it is more difficult to think about the humanist response—for me. The memory of the embarrassment and psychic violence of public schools is always close at hand. But Professor Rose asked me the following:<BR/><BR/>“In Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7897286065374355890.post-80323040270679077462008-04-08T04:11:00.000-07:002008-04-08T04:11:00.000-07:00It will probably come as no surprise that I loved ...It will probably come as no surprise that I loved school too. I am a prof of education now - in no time in my entire life have I been out of a school/academic environment. I went from being in school to teaching school to teaching at a university. Yes, I loved books and learning and figuring new things. But what really made education work was the quality of the relationships I had with teachers Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7897286065374355890.post-50395339209757503102008-04-07T22:40:00.000-07:002008-04-07T22:40:00.000-07:00There's a lot I could say about my own experience ...There's a lot I could say about my own experience with schooling -- a lot that is positive.A strange thing I encounter these days is that I am almost ashamed to say how much I loved high school. I feel like everyone around me had some kind of horrible experience, mostly socially related, and I sound like a jerk saying I loved it.<BR/><BR/>But I did. Not all of it. But most of it -- especially Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16687959285251176831noreply@blogger.com